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Jack Aldworth. Second Unit or Assistant Director: Wait Until Dark. Jack Aldworth was born on 13 May 1915 in Indiana, USA. He was an assistant director and producer, known for Wait Until Dark (1967), Angel (1960) and Seems Like Old Times (1980).
- May 13, 1915
- August 25, 1993
Jack Aldworth. Second Unit or Assistant Director: Wait Until Dark. Jack Aldworth was born on 13 May 1915 in Indiana, USA. He was an assistant director and producer, known for Wait Until Dark (1967), I Love Lucy (1951) and Angel (1960).
- Jack Aldworth
- August 25, 1993
- May 13, 1915
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“I lost my father when I was young and maybe that really hit me harder than I realized,” he told me. “It was such a blow.” Jay Sandrich’s father, Mark Sandrich, was a film director. Following in his father’s footsteps, Jay, who attended UCLA during the Korean War as part of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), became a motion picture major....
After completing his service, he interviewed for a job as the second assistant director on I Love Lucy. Only after accepting the position did he learn that the man who interviewed him for the job had once been his father’s assistant director. Jack Aldworth became an important mentor too. “This wonderful man literally had to show me everything they ...
Being an assistant director on I Love Lucy put a lot of pressure on Sandrich. “Number one because I didn’t know what I was doing,” he told me, “and number two because as this young kid, I was sort of caught in the middle of Desi and Lucy. Their marriagewas starting to get rocky, and they were at war in many ways. It was really way beyond my capabil...
“I really believe we all have it within ourselves to be happy,” Sandrich told me. “In your 20s and 30s and sometimes even 40s you are sometimes not so content with yourself. I got divorcedin my late 30s, early 40s, and until then I had never really failed at anything. And of course, you look back at divorce as a failure. Here were two people that h...
"The thing that I'm most thankful for is love. Finding the right wife the second time is the best thing I did. Linda has been really a wonderful asset to my whole family. She has just enriched my life so wonderfully. Being a father and a grandparent is really wonderful. We are close to our grandkids— and they are terrific kids. Both Linda and I rea...
Jay Sandrich on how he was hired onto I Love Lucy by Jack Aldworth because of his father's past working relationship with Lucille Ball 01:34 Jay Sandrich on learning from his mentors: Sheldon Leonard, Leonard Stern, and Jack Aldworth
He moved up to 1st AD when Jack Aldworth moved up to producer. "I was 24 and I knew nothing," Sandrich said. "I was learning on the number one show in the country. Aldworth was a wonderful mentor who really helped me." After thousands of reruns in syndication, it's sometimes easy to forget just how innovative I Love Lucy was to the history of ...
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